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Aircraft Control and Simulation: Dynamics, Controls Design, and Autonomous Systems - Third edition B. L. Stevens et al John Wiley and Sons , The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, UK , PO19 8SQ. 2016. 749pp. Illustrated. £110. ISBN 978-1-118-87098-3 .
When the first edition of this book appeared in 1992, it filled a major hole that existed in texts available on current flight dynamics practice. The application of control theory in the 1950s and 1960s was supported by books such as those by Etkin (Dynamics of Flight Stability and Control) and McRuer (Analysis of Nonlinear Control Systems) et al, but by the 1990s, major advances had been made in control theory, computing and simulation and the book by Stevens and Lewis reflected these changes. In subsequent years, many other books have addressed the same area so that flight dynamics is now well served with textbooks. This third edition updates the original material and adds two new chapters on unmanned air vehicles.
The book retains its original chapter subject skeleton with the...